Sentence examples for strange verb from inspiring English sources

You may think "nestled" a strange verb to use while describing a prison, and normally I would agree.

"'Accept,'" Drew said, "is a very strange verb for what you're asking people to do when you're telling them something about yourself.

In his new novel, "Moving Kings" (Random House), there are wonderfully strange verbs.

The piece's strange, verb-free headline says it all: "Twitter as Bubble Barometer".

The Irish language is a challenging language with many strange verbs and rules so don't learn it if you don't want to.

Strange metaphors follow verbs like tin cans on a string: "The restraining pins tinkled to the floor like metal rain, hunks of hair tumbling across her face in feral waves".

It's a sufficiently spooky moment that a reader may not readily appreciate how strange and wonderful a verb-choice is "bed-checking," how unexpected and ravagingly sad is "gifts".

Ignoring Victorian and Edwardian grammar and structure, he created a unique form of speech, employing odd and strange words, jargon, avoiding verbs, and using rhetorical devices such as parataxis.

Then I went back to the First World War, found Wilfred Owen, and wandered the campus dazed by "Strange Meeting," thinking about his remarkable use of the verb "groined" and mumbling, "And by his smile I knew that sullen hall".

The tricky part is that, though it may look strange, you should tag the dialogue with a lower-cased "said" or another speaking verb, because this will still technically be part of the same sentence.

German is a little strange at first for English speakers but you'll get the hang of throwing the verbs to the end of the sentence soon enough.